GRAHAMS ROAD, P.E.I. — It sounded like something out of a movie after a P.E.I. farmer described seeing a “white ball of fire” fall from the sky and into a hay field on the weekend.
All that remains now is a patch of burned ground about a metre wide and five metres long with no clues as to what caused the burn.
Provincial fire marshal Dave Blacquiere and Robert Hawkes, a professor of physics at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B., visited the site Tuesday.
Blacquiere took samples of residue on the ground but Hawkes, the author of more than 50 scientific papers on meteors, doubts the object was a meteorite.
“Natural meteors stop glowing somewhere between 30 and 10 kilometres from the Earth’s surface, called dark flight,” he said.